The AP3 is fulfilling its intent of providing security at the local level with forces recruited from the same communities they serve.

Ambassador Eikenberry, in the past, U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, ISAF, the United Nations, and U.S. Agency for International Development maintained separate lists of completed and existing development projects in Afghanistan.

the additional marines ordered to deploy to Afghanistan will do so as a Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF).

How has the streamlining of your command--overseeing ISAF and U.S. forces in Afghanistan--affected coordination and cooperation at the tactical and strategic level?

Don't we need that same kind of authority for the civilian agencies, Instead of having to go through this requisition process that takes months and months, where the people on the ground can make something happen just like your commanders…

President Karzai said that his country would not have the resources to pay for its own security for another 15 to 20 years and would remain dependent on American and NATO financial aid until then.

I want to thank them for putting partisanship aside and choosing to support our Commander in Chief in a very difficult situation.

We owe it to the American public that we maximize the chances of that not happening again.

The President is not doing this because it is politically expedient; he's doing it because he believes it's in the national security interests of the United States.

the strategy you've settled on maximizes the chances of success, maximizes the chances that we will be able to ultimately leave Afghanistan, not temporarily, but permanently, while securing the national security interests of the United…

We will not repeat the mistakes of 1989, when we abandoned the country only to see it descend into civil war and then into Taliban hands.